Putting the 'E' Back in Healthy -- New JAMA Study With Largest Trial of Vitamin E Shows Heart Health Benefit for Women
Posted on: Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:00 CDT
NEW YORK, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) says it is encouraged by the results of a new study involving nearly 40,000 healthy women -- the longest and largest trial ever conducted on Vitamin E. The study, published in the July 6 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), shows Vitamin E significantly reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and also confirmed that Vitamin E is safe, reporting that taking 600 IU of Vitamin E supplements every other day did not increase total mortality in healthy women.
Other WHS findings: * 24% reduction in cardiovascular deaths among nearly 20,000 women taking Vitamin E supplements over a 10-year period. * For women 65 and over taking Vitamin E supplements had an even greater positive effect: a 49% reduction in cardiovascular death and a 34% reduction in heart attack.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing dietary supplement industry ingredient suppliers and manufacturers. For more information on Vitamin E visit the CRN website http://www.crnusa.org/vitaminEissafe.html .
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